Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aloni said the U.S. should increase its pressure on Israel to negotiate. Pressure from public opinion, she said, would be more effective than financial pressure because "if you want to influence people, you don't want to put them into a corner...
...order to preserve its gains, the council must hit the ground running. To begin with, few actions could do more to underscore the continuity--really, legitimacy--of the council than to restate its opinion on final clubs, minority and women faculty hiring and security...
...exactly will the balance be struck? What is a controlled expression of opinion that does not threaten the party's authority? Thousands believed their criticism within bounds when Mao urged freethinking in the mid-1950s campaign known as "Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom." Then Deng, whom Mao had / once described as "a needle wrapped in cotton," orchestrated a crackdown that sent many to prison for merely following the Great Helmsman's invitation to criticize...
Last week in Maryville, Tennessee Circuit Court Judge W. Dale Young announced his decision in the unprecedented case: the embryos are people, not property, and should go to the mother. In an opinion loaded with some of the coded language that often surrounds abortion controversies, Young ruled that "human life begins at conception." The lawsuit ought to be decided as a question of custody, he concluded, and "it is to the manifest best interests of the child or children, in vitro that they be available for implantation." Questions of final custody, child support and visitation rights will be decided later...
...State Appreciation: Despite his drastic plummet in the public opinion polls, Gov, Michael S. Dukakis still seems to command the respect of the University of Virginia community. At this week's presidential summit on education held there, Dukakis received sustained applause when he arrived for public events...